Overlapping and interconnected crises are arriving faster than we can respond. Ecological, political and social crises. Communities are in transition. Old structures are failing. The belonging people counted on is fracturing.
When a crisis hits, people feel alone. Wellbeing and care gets abandoned at the moment it’s needed most. Those on the frontlines are facing not one emergency but many, with tools built for a world that no longer exists.
This is not a moment for single-issue thinking or surface-level fixes.
It’s a moment to draw on ancient and grounded wisdom. To shed what never served us. To build across silos, seed new connections, and create practices rooted in genuine resilience and regeneration.
We hold the space for that work for reflection, restoration, and the collective imagination needed to build what comes next.
Our vision.
A new paradigm for society, one that moves from extraction to care, connects the inner and outer dimensions of change, and builds resilient communities across the fault lines of collapse and emergence.
We believe systemic change happens collectively, and from the inside out. It depends not on individual heroics but on the quality of connections between people, the depth of thinking they can do together, and the conditions that allow them to sustain the work over time. Intertidal Lab builds the infrastructure for emergence. Identifying and resourcing frontline leaders to work across the fractures of our time. Creating spaces where movements can think and strategise across silos. And weaving care and collective wellbeing into the work itself, not as an afterthought but as a precondition for it.
As a result, leaders will be more sustained, more connected, and better equipped to navigate complexity. Movements develop a shared strategy that is more adaptive and more resilient. And the paradigm shifts from extraction to care, from individual heroics to collective power and this takes root not just as ideas but as lived practice.
What gets seeded in this moment will shape what emerges next. We exist to tend that ground.
Our approach.
Everything we do is rooted in how we believe change actually happens slowly, collectively, and from the inside out. Our values shape not just what we do, but how we show up: with care and wholeness, intentionality and presence, creativity and deep systems thinking.
What we do.
Leadership & Talent Development
We support emerging and established leaders especially women, LGBTQIA+ folks, and global majority organisers with the tools, coaching, and peer learning needed to sustain them and the work across contexts. Because the people holding movements together deserve to be held too.
Strategic Collaboration
We bring leaders across movements, organisations into shared space to reflect, elevate grassroots wisdom, and deepen understanding of complex, systemic issues. Building people-powered strategies for long-term change, rooted in collective intelligence rather than individual heroics.
Funding Emerging Movement Leaders
We provide flexible, early-stage funding and strategic support for frontline leaders responding to emergent realities not yet on the radar of traditional funders. Resourcing the people who are holding it all before the rest of the world catches up.
Tending the Spaces Where Movements Build
We invest in regenerative rhythms, rest, reflection, and repair because sustainable building and creating isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing differently. We make care and connection core to how change happens, not an afterthought to it.
Who we are.
Intertidal Lab was born from a friendship and a shared conviction that civil society, movements and leaders needed spaces that are both transformational and healing.
Tracy Frauzel and Neha Saigal are two people shaped by different contexts, different geographies, different ways of working yet asking the same questions about what change really requires.
Their skills mirror and complement each other. Tracy brings deep expertise in participatory design and international social change. Neha brings grounded experience with grassroots communities and feminist ways of working. Together they hold a perspective that is global and rooted meeting leaders where they are, not where the system expects them to be. Their shared values of justice, equity, regeneration, and feminist leadership are not aspirational. They are operational.
Together, they have supported more than 600 emerging leaders across 25 countries in South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Western Balkans building inclusive societies, defending democracy, and holding the line on freedom of expression.Intertidal Lab is what they built when they asked: what would it look like to do this work in a way that actually sustains people?
Intertidal Lab is a new initiative and we are building something lean, agile, and rooted in the same values we bring to our work.
At our core, we operate as a shared leadership model and collaborative by design and conviction. Around that core sits a wide and growing global network of consultants, partners, and practitioners who join us based on need, context, and geography. This means we can show up with depth and relevance wherever the work takes us.
We are in the process of building an advisory board that reflects the breadth of our vision, and we work in active partnership and collaboration with organisations across geographies and movements.
Alongside us is a community of leaders and organisations working for societal and ecological impact, a network built over years, now channelled into something new.
Intertidal Lab CIC is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company, registered in the United Kingdom.